Employee Resource Networks: Diversity & Inclusion at Vertex
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex employees discuss the diversity and inclusion programs available to them at Vertex.
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Entomology Lab Tour
Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures, County of San Diego
If you have ever gone to a farmers’ market, checked out at a grocery store, pumped gas or wondered if that produce was truly organic, you have benefitted from the Department of Agriculture, Weights & Measures. Learn from Dr. Cass, an employee at the Department about what they do in the entomology lab!
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Environmental Health Specialist with Emergency Response Assignment
County of San Diego Hazardous Materials Division
Watch this short 5 minute video to learn about an interesting career in Environmental Health from Todd Burton, member of the Hazardous Incident Response Team. The County of San Diego Department of Environmental Health & Quality have staff out in your community everyday to help protect the citizens of San Diego from the harmful effects of hazardous materials.
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Experiment - Acid-Base Indicator
Hologic
Acid – Base Indicator – Learn about acid and base with red cabbage juice, water, lemon juice, and baking soda.
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Frankenstein's Hand
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.
In this experiment, Gavin and Roman combine two compounds, which creates a chemical reaction. That chemical reaction releases a gas that we capture and use to create Frankenstein’s hand! Try this with some household supplies you may have around the home.
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Future of Vertex
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Reshma Kewalramani, President and CEO, talks about the future of Vertex.
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Hologic Company Tours 2021
Hologic
Marilyn Vi, Senior Director of R&D, takes you on a tour of how Hologic started as a company 35 years ago with just 6 employees on the idea of building a densitometer for determining patients' bone health to Hologic's nearly 7,000 employees today on championing women's health globally and enabling healthier lives everywhere, every day.
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How Lasers Work
DRS DAYLIGHT SOLUTIONS
Simple explanation of the operating principal of a laser.
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How Soap Works
County of San Diego, Live Well San Diego
Live Well San Diego shows a demonstration on how soap works to repel and wash away viruses, germs, and dirt.
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How to Create a Portfolio with NewSchool of Architecture & Design
NewSchool of Architecture & Design
During this video session we will go over the basics on how to create a design portfolio for college admission consideration. Putting together a portfolio of your best projects can be a fun task and we want to help you along the process of becoming the next top designer or architect!
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Illustrating Our Scientific Strategy
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Learn about the Vertex research principles that are the connective thread behind everything we do — from discovering molecules to applying our work in the clinic — and our hopes for the future of our pipeline.
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Inside the special lab that handles the coronavirus and other dangerous pathogens
Sanford Burnham Prebys
This video, shot just a few days before the opening our brand-new Biosafety Level 3 laboratory, is a unique opportunity to be inside the lab before it goes "hot" with virus. Only specially-trained personnel can enter once it does.
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